General Mental Health Facts
This term refers to someone's emotional, psychological, and social well-being.
Mental Health
This MHC involves periods of mania (intense feelings of happiness) and depression (intense feelings of sadness or tiredness).
Bi-Polar Disorder
This MHC refers to excessive weight loss occurring from not eating.
Anorexia
This term refers to the way you feel about yourself and how you value yourself.
Self-Esteem
This term refers to the normal reaction a person has to certain situations or events in their life.
Stress
This term refers to a wide range of conditions that affect a person's mood, thinking, and behavior.
Mental Illness
This MHC makes it hard to focus, sit still, or control one's thoughts.
ADHD
This MHC causes people to be scared even if they are safe and there is nothing to be afraid of and usually stems from previous trauma.
PTSD
This term refers to the unique combination of feelings, thoughts, and behaviors that make you different from everyone else.
Personality
This term describes positive stress.
Eustress
This term describes when people are looked down on because in some way they are different, experience labels, or unfair treatment.
Stigma
A common symptom of this MHC are panic attacks.
Anxiety
This MHC involves extreme sadness, changing the way a person thinks, feels, and acts.
Depression
This term refers to the view you have of yourself.
Self Concept
This term describes negative stress.
Distress
This term describes what a mental health professional gives to a person once assessing their feelings, how often they have these feelings, and how they affect their life.
A diagnosis
This MHC involves eating large amounts of food over a short period of time followed by purging.
Bulimia
This MHC changes the way the brain understands the world, making it hard for people to talk about their feelings, understand other's actions or have a social life.
Autism Spectrum Disorder
A high degree of confidence
Anything that causes stress, rangings from everyday annoyances to more serious personal problems is known as a ____________.
Stressor
This is another term for mental illness, mental disorder, or neurological disorder.
Mental Health Challenge
This MHC makes it hard for people to know what is real and what is not real, with a common symptom being hallucinations.
Schizophrenia
This MHC involves extreme overeating followed by feelings of guilt and shame.
Binge Eating Disorder
A negative self concept focuses on your ______________, while a positive self concept focuses on your _______________.
positive = strengths
Practicing good health habits is a great way to ___________ ____________.
Manage Stress